But the lad insisted on convoying us to some definite destination he had in mind.
We plodded on, a long cavalcade of horsemen and bevy of men afoot, convoying a shut litter and a closed travelling carriage.
I conned the road, on which I saw only the rear of a column of wagons convoying arena-beasts receding over the hilltops to southwards, and the normal traffic, horsemen or two-horse carriages or wagons far apart and few.
Behind him six more human shapes, four lictors convoying two bound prisoners.
It has been mentioned that there was an insufficient number of vessels available for use as convoying cruisers.
By this means we could at once provide additional vessels to act as convoying cruisers.
A stately squadron of snowy geese was riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks.
In the tenth sentence convoying whole fleets of ducks describes what?
At dinner that evening the captain was urged by some of the passengers to represent to the commodore of the convoying squadron the insubordinate condition of the crew, and to request his assistance.
Other members of the convoying destroyers turned to the right and left.
Either he is convoyingtwo French merchantmen he has overtaken, or he has two British prizes he has picked up.
It was therefore natural that their first encounters should have taken place between fleets engaged in convoying trade, or in endeavouring to intercept the trade of their enemy.
Blake had not remained on the coast of Holland, for the Council of State was still almost as intent as the Dutch on convoying trade or molesting the enemy's.
The main service of the fleet was in protecting our merchant vessels and convoying them to safe waters.
Convoying a large fleet, his squadron reached Barbados on May 11.
Later in the year France despatched a fleet to the West Indies convoying over two hundred merchantmen, but near the scene of the former battle a second great engagement occurred in which the English were again victorious.
In July a fleet of seven vessels convoying six thousand men commanded by Rochambeau arrived at Newport.
Ducasse, who was convoying a fleet of Spanish galleons, succeeded in getting them out of the harbor without being observed and got them safely to Havana.
So back the whole expedition went convoying Matty to the cave.
Stafford and his men left the hill, entered a body of woods running toward the village, and three minutes later encountered a detachment of blue horsemen, flankers of Hatch's large cavalry force convoying the Federal wagon train.
Of the main army the 21st Virginia led the column, convoying prisoners and the prize of stores.
Seven miles in length, train and convoying troops emerged from Winchester in the early light and began a rumbling, bellowing, singing, jesting, determined progress up the Valley pike.
The transports and their convoying war vessel did not get up till the 18th, but as they then brought a hundred thousand rations, we were able to begin accumulating stores at Kinston as an advanced depot.
Captain Neva presented the compliments of his colonel, told of the near approach of the supply wagons and convoying troops, and mentioned the handsome addition to the aerial fleet so luckily and peculiarly acquired.
Having dropped all the bombs they could through the mist, they were in full return flight to the convoying vessels.
They saw that the convoying of provisions round Peloponnese would be then impossible.
Used generously by small craft convoying a ship through a submarine area, it should be of great value.
By September 1 she had taken and destroyed three more enemy's vessels; one of which was cut out from a convoy, and burnt under the eyes of the convoying 74-gun ship.
One was a convoying frigate, which, when the "Kemp" pursued, gave chase and drove her off that afternoon.
The four frigates despatched for the seizure of the treasure-ships were not so superior in force to the convoying corvettes as to avert a conflict.
ONE THEY DIDN'T GET We were one of a group of American destroyers convoying a fleet of inbound British merchant steamers.
We went to war; and it was with an immense confidence in what they would do that I heard of the sailing of our first group of destroyers for the business of convoying ships and hunting U-boats on the other side.
On a destroyer convoying ships the officer of the deck has to stand with one eye to the compass ordering, say, two hundred changes of course in every hour.
Whatever it is, they are dashing in and out over there on their job of convoying merchant ships and hunting U-boats.
Convoying us out a mile, we parted with this gentleman, and then came to a smith's village, where the same invitation was given and refused.
She had been purchased by the Government for naval work, and, under the name of the Xenophon, had been employed in convoying merchant vessels in the Channel.
It is, however, explicit on two points: first, on the course to be taken with prizes, and then on the duties of captains engaged in convoying merchant ships.
In addition to Penn's squadron, another was fitted out under command of Captain Edward Hall, for the purpose of convoying the trade to the Mediterranean.
II The fleet was nearing the submarine-zone and it was time for the convoying destroyers to arrive.
There were three transports in the expedition, and a couple of warships convoying them, and half a dozen destroyers weaving their foam patterns in and out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convoying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
